An curved arrow pointing right. The US and Iran swapped prisoners after two years of high-stakes negotiations. The deal included the US unfreezing $6 billion in Iranian oil funds and dismissing ...

STOCKHOLM - A Swede freed in a prisoner swap with Iran, 33-year-old EU diplomat Johan Floderus, said in his first words since his release that he was "in seventh heaven", in a video published Sunday.

Iran and Sweden carried out a prisoner swap Saturday that saw Tehran release a European Union diplomat and another man in exchange for an Iranian convicted in Stockholm of committing war crimes ...

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On August 10, the New York Times reported that the US and Iran had reached an agreement on a prisoner swap. On the same day, the White House confirmed the agreement, but urged waiting for the ...

TASS/. The Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN has stated that Tehran and Washington had reached an agreement on a prisoner swap in a "5 to 5" format, the state-run IRNA ...